I don't know whether I'm more shocked that there's an actual product that lets a woman fake her virginity or shocked that it may soon be banned in some Arab nations. Let's discuss this...

Ladies, meet the Artificial Virginity Hymen kit. Distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, it retails for about $30 and promises to provide non-virgins with a bedroom fake-out to fool men.

The product, which is being marketed to women in the Middle East, where in many places sex before marriage is considered taboo, is designed to "leak" out a blood-like substance during intercourse to mirror the effect of first-time sex.

Here's the product instructions, in broken English, on the kit's Web site: "Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully. When your lover penetrate, it will ooze out a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount. Add in a few moans and groans, you will pass through undetectable."

Now conservative Egyptian lawmakers are calling for a ban on the product, even calling for "exile" for those who use it. "If this thing enters Egypt, the country is going to go to waste. God protect us," commented a reader on the Web site of Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabie.